Your Top 5 Funniest Movies

Office Space

Bushwacked ( I don't know why!!)

Run Ronny Run

Cool Runnings

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Kingpin

 
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in no order

Superbad

Talledega Nights

Old School

Anchorman

Office Space

Runner Ups

40 Year Old Virgin

Office Space

Wedding Crashers

Sex Drive

Pineapple Express

Role Models

Happy Gilmore

The Waterboy

Spaceballs

Step Brothers

I am sure there are more I am forgetting but those are off the top of my head
AWESOME movie

 
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I'm going to guess that, with the demographics of the Board, a lot of my choices won't even be recognized by most members. Or the type of humor won't be as appealing as, say, Animal House (which I love).

1. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

2. Mouse Hunt

3. Donovan's Reef/McLintock! (can't make up my mind - both are vintage John Wayne flicks).

4. Airplane

5. Arsenic and Old Lace

Runners Up:

1. Any Monty Python flick

2. Operation Petticoat

3. The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming

4. The Money Pit

5. Dr. Strangelove
Dude, have you been to the movies in the last 20 or 30 years? Seriously, I wouldn't have said anything but, Dr. Strangelove??? I like Kuprick as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't describe that movie as FUNNY.

And as a matter of personal taste, I must say that ALL Judd Apatow movies are severely OVERRATED. That's right, it had to be said.

And no JOE DIRT from the Happy Gilmore crowd? Very disappointing!!! That was the funniest movie Sandler ever made!

 
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One, Two, Three - staring James Cagney

The Heartbreak Kid - staring Charles Grodin and Cybil Sheppard

Foul Play - staring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase

Captain Ron and Overboard - staring Kurt Russell

The Birdcage - staring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane

Some Like It Hot - staring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon and Marilyn Monroe

Anything with Abbott and Costello or Olsen and Johnson or Martin and Lewis

T_O_B

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Runners Up:

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5. Dr. Strangelove
Dude, have you been to the movies in the last 20 or 30 years? Seriously, I wouldn't have said anything but, Dr. Strangelove??? I like Kuprick as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't describe that movie as FUNNY.

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"Dr. Strangelove" is the ultimate in "dark humor". More "character" humor than slapstick, by far. But the lines are hilarious. The image of Slim Pickens riding the bomb or describing the contents of the "survival" boxes; George C. Scott's shock at letting the Russian ambassador see "The Big Board" - it's a humorous look at how the paranoia spawned by the Cold War could lead to such dire consequences. A similar movie - at least in terms of the dark humor - is "War of the Roses". A movie in which two people end up killing each other over a divorce. Dark, but the humor derives from seeing "normal" emotions carried to the extreme. And so it is with "Dr. Strangelove" - how "normal" emotions taken to the extreme produces the end results. It's seeing what those emotions produce - and the characters evincing the emotions - that creates the humor.

Yes, I've seen moves in the last 20 or thirty years - Mouse Hunt is just one example. But while I enjoy the so-called "juvenile" humor of a lot of today's movies, I find that what appeals to me more - and always has - are either slapstick, physical humor (Mad World, Mouse Hunt, The Money Pit) or "character" humor such as Arsenic and Old Lace.

 
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One, Two, Three - staring James Cagney

The Heartbreak Kid - staring Charles Grodin and Cybil Sheppard

Foul Play - staring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase

Captain Ron and Overboard - staring Kurt Russell

The Birdcage - staring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane

Some Like It Hot - staring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon and Marilyn Monroe

Anything with Abbott and Costello or Olsen and Johnson or Martin and Lewis

T_O_B

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Captain Ron :thumbs Classic!

 
Dumb & Dumber

Role Models

Wedding Crashers

40 Year Old Virgin

Forrest Gump (not a comedy, but sooo many funny lines)

Runners up:

Knocked Up

Pineapple Express

Zach & Miri

Old School

 
Top 5 Funniest

1. Blazing Saddles

2. Animal House

3. Dumb and Dumber

4. Airplane

5. History of the World Part 1

Honorable Mention

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Back To School

The Big Lebowski

Nat'l Lampoon's Vacation

Caddy Shack

Some Like It Hot

A Christmas Story

The Quiet Man

Dodge Ball

Spaceballs

McClintock

Revenge of the Nerds

On The Road Movies With Bob Hope

Anchorman Legend of Ron Burgandy

 
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Runners Up:

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5. Dr. Strangelove
Dude, have you been to the movies in the last 20 or 30 years? Seriously, I wouldn't have said anything but, Dr. Strangelove??? I like Kuprick as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't describe that movie as FUNNY.

***SNIP***
"Dr. Strangelove" is the ultimate in "dark humor". More "character" humor than slapstick, by far. But the lines are hilarious. The image of Slim Pickens riding the bomb or describing the contents of the "survival" boxes; George C. Scott's shock at letting the Russian ambassador see "The Big Board" - it's a humorous look at how the paranoia spawned by the Cold War could lead to such dire consequences. A similar movie - at least in terms of the dark humor - is "War of the Roses". A movie in which two people end up killing each other over a divorce. Dark, but the humor derives from seeing "normal" emotions carried to the extreme. And so it is with "Dr. Strangelove" - how "normal" emotions taken to the extreme produces the end results. It's seeing what those emotions produce - and the characters evincing the emotions - that creates the humor.

Yes, I've seen moves in the last 20 or thirty years - Mouse Hunt is just one example. But while I enjoy the so-called "juvenile" humor of a lot of today's movies, I find that what appeals to me more - and always has - are either slapstick, physical humor (Mad World, Mouse Hunt, The Money Pit) or "character" humor such as Arsenic and Old Lace.
Fair enough.

Just rewatched a classic this weekend. "Planes trains, and automobiles". Very underrated John Candy flick IMO.

 
Dumb and Dumber

Office Space

Animal House

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Kindergarden Cop (It's hilariously funny watching Arnold trying to be funny, somehow it works. It's one of those unexplained mysteries of the world)

 
I wonder how much has to do with how old you were when you first saw them..Most of my favorites that immediately came to mind were the ones I saw as a college or Highschool student... I was watching "Brother in law"? a couple months ago online and got so bored I had to turn it off...hopefully it got funny in the second half.

Mine:

1) Young Frankenstein

1b) Blazing Saddles..(With my favorite line, "Somebody go back to the ranch and get a sheitload of dimes.")

3) The Jerk

4) Animal House

5) Airplane

5b) Caddyshack

dis?Honorable mention:

A Night at the Opera (Marx Bros...One of the few times I can remember being embarrassed by my Dad's laugh)

A Day at the Races (ditto)...Duck Soup

The Blues Brothers

Something about Mary

the Blue Collar Comedy tours

Spaceballs

Wedding Crashers

Stripes

M*A*S*H

Old School

The Waterboy

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Naked Gun

50 First Dates

Shrek(s)

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Life of Brian

Ghostbusters

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Some of the old Pink Panther movies

And I never wanted to laugh at any of the "Earnest goes to..." movies, but they can be funny.

And I'm probably the only one who laughs out loud every time I see the Elephant-Doggie "Shep" fetch a stick in "George of the Jungle"

.."Don't worry..Nobody gets killed in this story..They just get really big boo boos" :clap

 
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I can't really rank mine but I have a top 5.

Run Ronnie Run

BASEketball

Dumb and Dumber

Dirty Work

Caddyshack

if you want arthouse comedies, go with Wes Anderson or Christopher Guest movies like The Royal Tennenbaums or Waiting for Guffman

 
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